Laksevåg is a borough of the city of Bergen in Hordaland county, Norway. The borough is located in the western part of the municipality. Historically, the area was called Laxevaag, and it was a separate municipality until 1972 when it was merged into Bergen.
SS Polarlys was a Hurtigruten coastal passenger/cargo steamer built in 1912. She was seized by the Germans during the Second World War, and served several stints in the Kriegsmarine. Having resumed her Hurtigruten service after the war until 1951, and in 1952 she was renamed Sylvia. At the same year, she was transferred to the Royal Norwegian Navy, and served under the name HNoMS Valkyrien as a motor torpedo boat tender between 1953 and 1963.
The Royal Norwegian Naval Academy is located at Laksevåg in Bergen. It was formally established 27 October 1817 in Frederiksvern. The institution educates officers for the Royal Norwegian Navy.
The Norwegian vintage steamship SS Stord I was built as Stord in 1913 and delivered from Laxevaag Maskin- og Jernskipsbyggeri in Bergen, Norway to Hardanger Sunnhordlandske Dampskipsselskap (HSD).
Bergen Sporvei AS was a municipal owned public transport company that operated in Bergen, Norway from 1898 to 1998. The company operated both the Bergen Tramway, Bergen trolleybus and the yellow buses in Bergen.
Loddefjord is a suburb of the city of Bergen in Hordaland county, Norway. It is located in the borough of Laksevåg west of the city centre. Loddefjord consists mainly of high- and low-rise flats revolving around the local shopping mall. It is home to a large group of immigrants who came to Bergen in the late 1970s and 1980s.
SS Oster is a Norwegian steamship built in 1908 by Christianssands Mekaniske Værksted for the Indre Nordhordlandske Dampskibsselskab. She sailed between Bergen and Osterfjorden in Norway with passengers and goods from 1908 until World War II when she was acquired as a guard ship by the Royal Norwegian Navy and later by Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine. After the war the vessel was in need of maintenance and modernization before she could be put back in service in 1956. As the only coal-powered steamer left in Bergen, Oster became a symbol of the old fjord steamers on the western coast. However, the boat was sold and rebuilt as a freighter in 1964, and the steam-engine was replaced with a more modern diesel engine. In 1996 she was bought by Nordhordland Veteranbåtlag who restored the ship back to her original state as a steam-driven passenger ship. She now sails with tourists on special occasions.
Fana is a former municipality in Hordaland county, Norway. The municipality was located in the central part of the Bergen Peninsula, south of the city of Bergen. The administrative centre of the municipality was the village of Nesttun. The roughly 200-square-kilometre (77 sq mi) municipality existed from 1838 until 1972 when it had 44,402 residents, making it one of the most populous municipalities in the nation. The area of the former municipality encompassed southern half of the present-day municipality of Bergen, it specifically included the present-day boroughs of Fyllingsdalen, Ytrebygda, and Fana, as well as the southern part of Årstad.
Laksevåg is a former municipality in Hordaland county, Norway. The 32-square-kilometre (12 sq mi) municipality was located on the western part of the Bergen Peninsula. The administrative centre of the municipality was the village of Loddefjord. The municipality, which existed from 1918 until 1972, was a located a short distance west of the city of Bergen, and today it makes up the borough of Laksevåg which is part of the city of Bergen in the municipality of Bergen. The municipality was located along the Byfjorden, north of the Grimstadfjorden, and west of the Fyllingsdalen valley.
Storavatnet is a lake just southwest of the village of Loddefjord in Bergen, Hordaland county, Norway. The 2.2-kilometre (1.4 mi) long lake is located in the borough of Laksevåg, west of the city center of Bergen.
Drotningsvik is a neighborhood in the city of Bergen, Norway. It is located west of the village of Loddefjord in the borough of Laksevåg.
MS Trollfjord is a Hurtigruten vessel built by Fosen mekaniske verksteder in Rissa, Norway in 2002. It is named after the Norwegian Trollfjord. She has a sister ship, MS Midnatsol which also sails for Hurtigruten.
Lygra was a RoRo vessel launched on 3 October 1978 at Glommen Mekaniske Verksteder AS, Norway. She was broken up for scrap at Alang on 25 February 2018.
Øivin Skappel Fjeldstad is a Norwegian banker and politician for the Conservative Party.
Several motor ships have borne the name Midnatsol:
Oskar Andreas Munch was a Norwegian businessperson. He started his career in the company of his father, Sverre Munck, and eventually became chairman of Elektrisk Bureau and Asea Brown Boveri.
Laksevåg Church is a parish church in Bergen municipality in Hordaland county, Norway. It is located in the borough of Laksevåg in the city of Bergen. The church is part of the Laksevåg parish in the Bergen arch-deanery in the Diocese of Bjørgvin. The white wooden church was built in 1875 by the architects Peter Andreas Blix and Theodor August Fromholz. It seats about 432 people. The church was consecrated on 12 May 1875.
Oslofjord is a Danish registered ro-ro passenger ferry owned and operated by Norwegian ferry operator Fjord Line. The vessel operates between Sandefjord in Norway to Strömstad in Sweden.
Gyldenpris is a neighborhood in Bergen, Norway in the borough of Årstad.
